Hadriana in All My Dreams
- ... that Hadriana in All My Dreams, published in 1988, was the first novel by a Haitian author to win a major French literary award?
- Source: Chaulet Achour, Christiane (2013). "Prix littéraires et réception de la littérature haïtienne" [Literary prizes and reception of Haitian literature]. In Brodziak, Sylvie (ed.). Haïti. Enjeux d'écriture. Littérature Hors Frontière (in French). Saint-Denis: Presses universitaires de Vincennes. pp. 187–213. doi:10.3917/puv.brod.2013.01.0187. ISBN 978-2-84292-359-4.
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Jaguarnik (talk) 07:57, 4 July 2024 (UTC).
- Comment: Please transcribe the book passage that confirms the hook fact to this nomination. Schwede66 23:00, 4 July 2024 (UTC)
- @Schwede66: the passage shows a table of Haitian writers that have won one of the six awards with dates and names of the authors. I'm struggling to reproduce the table, since every time I do so, the DYK template throws an error. Jaguarnik (talk) 23:06, 4 July 2024 (UTC)
- @Jaguarnik: You should try replacing the vertical bars with |, like so:
- --Launchballer 20:36, 10 July 2024 (UTC)
- Table reproduced:
Comparative Table of the Six Major French Literary Prizes and their Awarding to Haitian Authors
Prize name |
Prize founding |
Author, novel, year of awarding
|
Goncourt |
1903 |
N/A
|
Femina |
1904 |
N/A
|
Prix du Roman de l'Académie Française |
1914 |
N/A
|
Renaudot |
1926 |
René Depestre, Hadriana in All My Dreams, 1988
|
Interallié |
1930 |
N/A
|
Médicis |
1958 |
Dany Laferrière, The Enigma of the Return, 2009
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Jaguarnik (talk) 22:03, 10 July 2024 (UTC)